Good people, There is work occurring in several locations around the library. The workmen make every attempt to minimize the disruption to Gleeson Library patrons and staff. Unfortunately sometimes the noise and disruption is unavoidable. Today’s (9-9-08) noise was related to work on the third floor near the “R” stacks. Facilities is apologetic for the … Continue reading Facilities work and noise in the Library
The staff at Gleeson Library/Geschke Center is glad you are here! Our thoughts are on the new school year, transitions and new beginnings. Along those lines, on view at the library beginning today is a display of books and DVDs with a college-life theme. (All of them can be checked out, of course.) You can … Continue reading Welcome to new and returning students
Are you a new student at USF? Or just curious about the layout of the Library? Then join us for a tour of the Gleeson Library Geschke Center. On the tour, a staff member will show you around the library and tell you about our services. Tours meet inside the Library in the lobby, across … Continue reading Tours of the Library
Books in the Lower Level stacks from call numbers “A” through “BF 38.5” will be temporarily moved while Facilities Management works in the area (approximately August 18 – September 19). If you need a book that has been moved, please request it at the Circulation Desk for retrieval. Continue reading Lower Level Books Moved
We’ve gotten rid of our 4-year-old computers in the Reference and Periodicals Rooms, replacing 17 Dells and 12 Apples all with new iMacs like the ones pictured above. These computers have been specially configured to run Windows XP in addition to Mac OS X. At startup, you can choose which operating system you would like … Continue reading New Computers
Hi everybody! The USF Book Club is now meeting on Wed. Aug. 6, 2008 to discuss Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees. See our older post for more information. Thanks, and we hope to see you there! Continue reading Date Change: USF Book Club: Secret Life of Bees
Have you heard of the Horizon Report? It comes out every year and highlights 6 areas of emerging technology relating to higher education. Pretty interesting project. I just learned about it at CARL North IT’s workshop called Mashup the Library. Continue reading 2008 Horizon Report
A new search engine launched yesterday has been causing quite a buzz. Cuil (pronounced “cool”), was founded by a couple of ex-Google employees and does a few things differently than other search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft (the big-three have about 90% of the search market). As you can see below, successful searches … Continue reading Taking on Google – Cuil
The Library finally joined Facebook! Become a fan and show your love: add pictures, write on the wall, make a super wall post, or start a discussion. Plus, all Gleeson Gleanings blog posts are imported as notes on the Facebook page. Whoopie! Continue reading Gleeson Library | Geschke Center on Facebook!
PolicyArchive, an online archive of public-policy research was recently launched by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis University Library and the Center for Governmental Studies, a nonprofit group that encourages civic engagement. PolicyArchive now holds more than 12,000 policy documents from about 220 think tanks and research groups. The archive’s developers say it will house up … Continue reading New archive of open access public-policy research at IUPUI